Re: [PATCH] fix bind -X quoting

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/24/23 1:13 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:

> You could do it if you allowed, say
>
> bind -x '"\eX": \"command with spaces\" \"x\"'
>
> and then stripped the backslashes before calling rl_generic_bind, but
> that's not exactly backwards compatible either.

Thinking about it some more, you can do it like this:

bind -x $'"\\eX": \'"command with spaces" "x"\''

since bind -x allows single-quoted strings as the command to execute,
and $'...' allows backslash-escaped single quotes.

If we ran the command string through rl_translate_keyseq, it would allow
backslash-escaped double quotes and strip the backslashes, but you get
the rest of the backslash processing that you probably don't want.

It's just not transitive.

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